What's The 411? was also met with positive reviews from critics, who applauded Blige's singing and the combination of hip hop and soul music, which led to her being named the "Queen of Hip Hop Soul".
What's the 411? has since been viewed by critics as one of the 1990s' most important records.It also earned Blige two Soul Train Music Awards in 1993: Best New R&B Artist and Best R&B Album, Female.In 2020, the album was ranked 271 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list.
"My Life" It also won the 1995 Billboard Music Award for Top R&B Album. In 1996, following the album's success, MCA issued a remix EP entitled My Life Remix Album which featured artists such as LL Cool J and Lauryn Hill.In 1996, the album was nominated for Best R&B Album at the 38th Grammy Awards.Her 1994 album My Life is among Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time,and Time magazine's All-Time 100 Albums.
"Family Affair", which became Blige's first career number-one single on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart and a worldwide number-one hit.The single topped the Billboard Hot 100 for six weeks starting from November 3, 2001,In 2008, for Billboard magazine's 50th Anniversary, "Family Affair" was listed as the 79th-biggest single on the Billboard Hot 100 All-Time Top Songs.while at the end of 2009 was named the 12th most successful song from 2000 to 2009, on the Billboard Hot 100 Songs of the Decade.Rolling Stone ranked it number ninety-five on their list of 100 Best Songs of the 2000s decade.
"No More Drama" The video for the song won Blige her first MTV Video Music Award for Best R&B Video. The song was also used as a background theme for both Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married? and Why Did I Get Married Too?.The song famously samples "Nadia's Theme", currently used as the theme music for the American soap opera The Young and the Restless.
"Be Without You" Ranking among the most played songs on US radio in the year 2006,The song was nominated for Record of the Year and Song of the Year and won the Best R&B Song and Best Female R&B Vocal Performance categories at the 2007 Grammy Awards.In March 2017, Billboard ranked "Be Without You" as the most successful R&B/Hip-Hop Song of all time.
"Growing Pains" was awarded the Best Contemporary R&B Album at the 51st Grammy Awards in February 2009.Growing Pains was ranked number 29 on Rolling Stone's list of the Top 50 Albums of 2007.
"Just Fine" In addition, the song was ranked 41st on Rolling Stone's list of the 100 Best Songs of 2007.
In 2011, VH1 ranked Blige as the 80th greatest artist of all time.In 2012, VH1 ranked Blige at number 9 in "The 100 Greatest Women in Music" list.
She received a Legends Award at the World Music Awards in 2006, and the Voice of Music Award from ASCAP in 2007.Billboard ranked Blige as the most successful female R&B/Hip-Hop artist of the past 25 years.
In February 2021, Blige became a first-time nominee for the 2021 class of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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